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#82: John Payne (satyr) Sat 27 Feb 10 12:22
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Armed with very fast, medium range, anti-radiation (anti-RADAR) missiles,
set to launch a few seconds before the remotely controlled host ship was
destroyed by RADAR controlled ground-to-air or air-to-air missiles, it
certainly could be. Not only do you get the other side to expend
ordinance, but you have a good shot at taking out their RADAR at the same
time.
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#81: Michael C. Berch (mcb) Sat 27 Feb 10 00:26
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Except for the electronics (and electronics are cheap - it's software
development that costs money) the thing looks fairly low-tech, though
fuel-efficient, and probably pretty cheap to produce. <br /><br />So if you attack (say) Iran, what happens if you send 1,000 of them? Or
more? Even with moderate attrition, you're way ahead. You can even
send waves of them to distract air defenses. Send some high, some low.
Decoys. They don't even all have to carry ordnance. It's a game-changer.
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#80: John Payne (satyr) Fri 26 Feb 10 08:53
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Big + not stealthy + slow = sitting duck.<br /><br />What's new here is hang time and range, otherwise 1990 vintage cruise
missiles are more of a threat.<br /><br />The message is probably on the order of &quot;this is just the tip of the
iceberg.&quot;
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#79: Michael C. Berch (mcb) Tue 23 Feb 10 00:45
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Israel Rolls Out World's Biggest UAV<br /><br />Rattling a saber and marketing a product at the same time, Israel
rolls a new Unmanned Arial Vehicle into action.<br /><br />The Eitan or Heron is not just any drone. It's a whopper as big as a
Boeing 737, capable of staying in the air for 20 hours and capable of
reaching Iran. <br /><br />Full story:
&lt;http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/02/22/israel-rolls-out-worlds-biggest-uav/?test=latestnews&gt;<br /><br />Other coverage:
&lt;http://www.theage.com.au/world/giant-israeli-drone-puts-iran-within-range-20100222-orp1.html?autostart=1&gt;
&lt;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3851377,00.html&gt;
&lt;http://www.defense-update.com/features/2010/february/eitan_rollout_21022010.html&gt;
&lt;http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=460&gt;
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#78: Brian Slesinsky (bslesins) Mon 22 Feb 10 19:49
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I'm not so sure. When there's plenty of time to get a close-up view
without putting the pilot's life at risk, it allows for more patient
decisions.
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#77: pseudoanthropos (abloner) Mon 22 Feb 10 05:03
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The whole business makes me sick.
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#76: John Payne (satyr) Sun 19 Jul 09 19:04
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Headline: Air Force Plans for All-Drone Future<br /><br />Okay, take it with a grain of salt, but the subtext is that the days of
Air Force resistance to the use of drones are over.<br /><br />http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/air-force-plans-for-all-drone-future/
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#75: John Payne (satyr) Sun 28 Jun 09 17:38
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Ultra-precision glide bombs, dispensed up to ten at a time, are on a rush
order presumably for use in (Iraq and) Afghanistan. The system is called
Gunslinger, and while it falls short of the nuggets of pure information
dispensed by another Gunslinger (epic poem by Ed Dorn), it may represent
an all-time high information:explosives ratio for real world munitions.
That said, it's still a bomb.<br /><br />&lt;http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/06/spec-ops-shops-for-10-pack-of-precision-glide-bombs/&gt;<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/lh6h63
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#74: John Payne (satyr) Mon 22 Jun 09 18:10
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Plan to teach military robots the rules of war
http://tinyurl.com/rulesofwar (newscientist.com)
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#73: John Payne (satyr) Sun 24 May 09 11:23
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If the military relevance of that last is obscure, imagine an operator
suspended in a gimbal, as in the movie Lawnmower Man, connected to a
humanoid machine in the field.
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